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Hello everyone. I graduated in 2016... I always wanted to be a nurse. I was so excited to give care that I once experience In the ICU setting. I told myself I will be that nurse.... she was so inspiring. Well... I'm currently going on my 3rd month of my new job and I'm so upset. I honestly do not like it. I can't even explain why? I work on a med surg/ tele unit. I can honestly say everyone has been so supportive and kind. I have nothing negative to say about anyone. However, my nurse to patient ratio I do believe is rather high. We are averaging 9 patients for night shift. Yes, we have aides for the floor but still isn't this high? Sometimes I have seen someone have 10! As a new nurse that scares me!!!! That to me is dangerous. I have talked to fellow graduates who are averaging 6? I don't know 😓 I feel so sad wondering did I make the right career choice? I come home and I am just so thankful to be home because I am so stressed. It kills me that by the end of the shift I feel like I barely know my patient. That's upsetting because I don't feel like I am a nurse. I feel like a robot constantly trying to beat some clock. Assessments before a patient falls asleep, meds, chart chart! Everything is such a rush, the other day I had 5 and I was so thankful! I didn't mind that day. But in all reality I am not happy and that makes me so sad. This was suppose to be it for me.... my career and here I am now contemplating if I chose the right one 😓 Any advice would be helpful from more experienced nurses and heck even nurses that may feel the same as I do. I'm thinking maybe it's just the unit? Or the hospital setting? I feel so unhealthy body and mind. i just want to be happy. Is there any other settings that you guys have experienced that are less stressful? At this point I'm just overwhelmed with fear of being unhappy. That's not why I chose nursing. I also don't want to give up so quickly? Maybe I should stick it out because I am newer and things will get better? I just feel that many of my fellow grads are super happy and here I am so unhappy... I don't understand 😓

Hello all, I took my NCLEX exam on September 8th and failed at 176 questions. I have honestly been in the slumps ever since! Today I got online and made myself reapply for my exam... I am starting my study plan tomorrow. I know I have wasted lots of time... but honestly it broke my heart... I feel like I am in the in between! I see all my friends buying new cars since graduation and it really made me so upset because that was supposed to be me too! I feel so defeated... I feel overwhelmed with where to start, I do have an ATI review that I can utilize but does anyone suggest doing other things besides it? I feel like I don't even know how to study for it now, just doing questions I feel isn't enough but maybe it is? Has anyone failed the first time and passed the second? If so may I ask what you did? I'm sorry guys... I just need some encouragement... it's so hard to pick myself back up... no lie I felt like giving up everything that's how upset I was. I was supposed to finally start my life, plan my wedding and start a family. With me passing this my world will get better. I feel like I can't be happy until I pass. I find it hard to believe that just questions will help me when I feel weak on content too? My family has told me multiple times my attitude needs to change... I can honestly say I look back now and realize I did not use strategy.... I got scared when I didn't know something and didn't even try because I was like I don't know this.... I just feel awful I'm one of the only three in my class to not pass.... I'm terribly down.... I feel like I need mental help. I can't explain but I just feel like my world was turned upside down because this was my dream. If anyone has any kind words or can help me I would really appreciate it ❤️ I am looking in this nursing community because you have all been very supportive before. I think I was baffled because I had a 92 percent chance of passing on my comprehensive predictor but I waited a month to take the test and then I didn't brush up on anything because I felt that was a great score.... I know awful I should have been doing questions that whole time and maybe it would have been different....

PA is the state I had applied in

Okay, so I failed my NCLEX this past Thursday. I'm one of the only 2 people in my program to fail. I'm extremely upset. We graduated August 4th. I just wanted to ask what others did or what some advice may be. At the end of my schooling we had an ATI review and I had a 92 percent chance of passing according to the comprehensive predictor. I didn't study like crazy I just brushed up on some content. I don't know if I took it for granted but honestly I would like some opinions. I still have access to ATI questions and lippincott. I have the comprehensive Saunders review book as well. I retake in October. I'm so scared. I don't know know where to begin I have access to so much material but I don't know what is the best route. Did I leave my brain stale mate for a month is that why I failed? I'm so upset? Should I buy a review course?

Dear nurses or student nurses, It has been 1 year since I have started nursing school, I was very scared in the beginning more so of the unknown and all of the rumors that circulate about nursing school. I just want to ask is it normal to still feel scared? I am not as scared as in the beginning but I still get scared when I am starting a new rotation and so forth. I feel like I still dont know as much as I should for being 1 year in....this scares me but my professor said that we arent all going to get every single experience in school. ... what happens when I graduate? What if I feel like this? I dont feel confident at all and it scares me so much.....

Can anyone help me with selecting a topic for Evidenced Based Care? I have to write it and it must be for pediatrics or maternity, I had an idea and a classmate was already doing it and now I am stumped because we have to find studies and i am having a difficult time selecting a topic

Thanks so much for the encouragement and relation of feelings! It helps to know I am not feeling alone in the battle

Hi everyone, I decided to take a few minutes to write on here today due to the day that I had. I Hope I can get some honest and positive advice. I am in my 3rd semester of Nursing school on a pediatrics rotation. Today was very stressful to the point I got sick. My day started with a 2 year old having to go to the OR my instructor had to me we have to hurry and get her prepped for the OR this part was so fast paced and I was very rushed to the point I could not focus. Why do we as nurses have to hurry in preparation for the OR? General question? Also when my patient got back I felt lile I was charting constantly and struggling to do this in between care. If I was in the room with the patient I was getting told you need to do your hourly IV assessment! Or if I was charting I was told to check on my patient. ...I just felt like I couldnt keep up.....I feel by now I should be getting good at this but yet it was my 2nd day on the pediatric floor....Im so nervous still to this day every clinical because Im always told I missed something charting or I didn't do this right. I feel like my experiences have been so negative unless it is me portraying constructive criticism diffently. We got in trouble this morning because we were asked about the pain scales and couldnt name them all when we literally just learned them like 3 days ago. ...Nursing school makes me feel very dumb someday s and I question could I do this? I dont understand how it is possible to take on 4 to 6 patients when I am having trouble with 1? Will this eventually come? I have a difficult time with charting stuff quickly and I dont know why? I think its because I question things so much. When I talk to my peers they say they feel the exact same way? Nursing people or nursing students is this feeling normal? Is it normal to be as stressed and overwhelmed? I feel like there is sooooo much knowledge to know in such a short time frame and when I dont know it it really takes a toll on me and makes me question maybe this isnt for me....Everyday there is something I dont know how to do but I learn it....do i just have to accept that I will not know everything by the time I am done? This is killin me There is so much to know about a new patient and now we get our assignment in the mornings so I cant even look over my chart for the patient until the morning of....Im literally scared amd questioning my abilities.....Please help with advice in the right direction.

These were admitting labs, and on admission she was diagnosed with dehydration/delusions. She is fine now, and no history of anemia and not bleeding, no renal issues, this is why I was so confused? The reason for the delusions was an adverse affect to Oxycontin, she was given narcan upon admission. Under my care she ate one bite of food, so it kind of makes sense, but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the whole Dehydration aspect because I know she is but it says for those labs to be low it wouldn't be dehydration. So that's why I chose nutrition deficit.

Nothing in my lab book pertains to her except nutritional deficit

Okay guys I am for some reason stumped on this. My patient was admitted with dehydration and I am suppose to pick applicable labs and so far I have picked sodium, chloride, bun, creatine , rbc, hemoglobin, and hematocrit. I defined why the beginning ones were high or low but the last 2 hemoglobin and hematocrit are low and the only thing I can think of is nutritional deficit? But she is in for dehydration, in my lab book it says it would be increased if she was dehydrated? I'm confused why they are low

Your reply that all us baby nurses are wondering about really makes me feel good....

Thanks so much...

Thanks so much

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice from some nurses/future nurses. I am in week 10 of clinicals, did my first med pass today and it wasn't so bad. I wanted to ask is it normal to still feel lost at times? I don't ever feel confident instead I am sick before clinicAL and I stress about it all week long. After clinical I'm fine because I survived it! This is going to sound odd but I have never had a Job in health care and the things that you all may think is nothing is indeed something to me. For example ambulating a patient?!? In 10 clinicals I have only had to do this 1 time with help and it makes me nerve, oh and we learned Trach care, injections, suctioning, feeding via gastric tube, I have not had the opportunity like some of my other peers to complete this clinical tasks, I am doing clinical on a post op floor and most of the patients are gone in 2 days. I just want to know if the feeling I am having is normal, I feel like Just because we learned it we are expected to know how to do it and I'm so scared because I have never done trach care and I'm scared the day I have to.now it's on to IVS and I'm terrified! We have to do all this assessing and I feel like half the time I'm not even sure what I'm doing? Feeling defeated =(